![Man-made Israel [Book Review]](https://epalestine.ps/sambahour/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/TheInventionofAncientIsrael-BOOKCOVER-723681-1.jpg)
by Sam Bahour | July 31, 2020 | Books, Writings
What do you get when you mix ten decades of biblical studies, an Old Testament, the ideology of Zionism, and a tablespoon of politically motivated archaeology, all mixed in a bowl of historical evidence? Author Keith W. Whitelam undertook this recipe and reports on the results in The Invention of Ancient Israel: The Silencing of Palestinian History”. The short answer to the question is that one is left with a toxic modern state, hell-bent on crafting an umbilical cord between itself and a mythical 2000-year old past. In other words, the State of Israel.
![Palestinian refugees are Israel’s Achilles heel [Book Review]](https://epalestine.ps/sambahour/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/the-war-of-return-adi-schwartz-einat-wilf.png)
by Sam Bahour | May 1, 2020 | Books, Writings
The book is a long-winded frontal attack on Palestinian refugees and reads more as a commissioned assignment from the Hasbara-hub called the Israeli Ministry of Strategic Affairs than a truly deep analysis of the issue of Palestinian refugees. What is missing from the book is as important as what is in it—all the other references that Palestinians’ Right of Return is based on, above and beyond the single one, UN General Assembly 194, that the authors pin their entire argument around.
![“The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine” by Ilan Pappe [Recommended]](https://epalestine.ps/sambahour/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/The-Ethnic-Cleansing-of-Palestine-by-Ilan-Pappe.jpg)
by Sam Bahour | September 7, 2007 | Books
“Along with the late Edward Said, Ilan Pappe is the most eloquent writer of Palestinian history.”—NEW STATESMAN. Renowned Israeli historian, Ilan Pappe’s groundbreaking work on the formation of the State of Israel. Between 1947 and 1949, over 400 Palestinian villages were deliberately destroyed, civilians were massacred and around a million men, women, and children were expelled from their homes at gunpoint. Denied for almost six decades, had it happened today it could only have been called ‘ethnic cleansing’. Decisively debunking the myth that the Palestinian population left of their own accord in the course of this war, Ilan Pappe offers impressive archival evidence to demonstrate that, from its very inception, a central plank in Israel’s founding ideology was the forcible removal of the indigenous population. Indispensable for anyone interested in the current crisis in the Middle East.
![From Mormon Idaho, Through Youngstown, to Everyone in Palestine and Israel [Book Review]](https://epalestine.ps/sambahour/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/educated-tara-westover.jpg)